Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.